Master Study of Religions (800 [3] - Version 2025)

M1 History of Religions

Modern History of Religion: Lectures or Lectures with exercises

• 010014 VO Basic Course Church History I
• 010057 SE Christian Pilgrimage. History, Places, Practices
• 010065 VO Introduction to the Eastern Churches - Focus on the Orthdodox Churches
• 010170 VU [ en ] Religion in the USA
• 060017 VO ( STEOP ) Introduction to Jewish Cultural History
• 070037 UE Course on Methodology - Measuring sanctity? Digital approaches to pre-modern religion, piety and sanctuaries
• 080070 VU B220 Selected Field of Research: Ecology, Spirituality and spiritual ecology
• 141024 VU Talismans and magic spells: - The so-called occult sciences in the Arab-Islamic world
• 141192 VU [ en ] Islam: Phenomena, Developments and Analyses I
• 142025 VO ( MIXED ) One, Two, Many. Alternative Ontologies in Indian Philosophy
• 142201 VO Balancing Act Ayurveda: The Traditional Medicine of South Asia in the Past and Present
• 142208 UE History and Characteristics of South Asian Islam
• 150036 VO Religion in Japan

Ancient Religions: Lecture or Lecture with exercise

• 090089 PS [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Women and Religion in Late Antiquity
• 133403 SE Bachelor Seminar: (North) Germanic pagan religion - deities, myths, cults - Gottheiten, Mythen, Kulte
• 160195 VO [ en ] Archaeology of the celtic world

Seminar

• 060046 SE Of well-poisoners and world-destroyers: images of Jews under the sign of the monster
• 090097 SE ( ON-SITE ) Bishops, monks and ecclesiastics: religious authorities in Late Antiquity
• 142221 SE [ en ] Beef Biryani or Pure-Veg Thali: Food, Religion and Politics in South Asia

M2 Comparative Study of Religions

Lecture or Lectures with exercises

• 010076 VO ( REMOTE ) Ethics of Religion
• 010175 VU Feminism and Religion(s)

Seminars

• 010078 SE Apocalypse & co: Millenarian Beliefs Compared
• 010182 SE ( MIXED ) Illness, Healing, Medicine: Religion in Dealing with Epidemics

M3 Academic Study of Religious Texts

• 010084 UE New Skin for the Old Mythology: Mythological Motifs in Fairy-Tales, Folklore and Popular Culture

M4 Applied Study of Religions

Lecture with exercise

• 010047 EX The Eastern Churches in Vienna

Excursion or seminar or practical course

• 010080 EX Religion in Focus: Scientology
• 600005 SE Research Seminar

M5 Compulsory module: Social-Scientific Study of Religions

Lectures or Lectures with exercises

• 010088 VO ( MIXED ) Introduction to the Psychology of Religion
• 010089 VO [ en ] Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

Seminar

• 010081 SE [ en ] Religion and Politics: Basics and Current Issues
• 010177 SE ( KPH-W-NÖ ) Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

M6 Research Seminar

• 010083 UE Research Seminar